An Optical-Digital System For Automatic Processing Of Chest X-Rays

Ernest L. Hall; Richard P. Kruger; A. Franklin Turner

doi:10.1117/12.7971702

1 June 1974 An Optical-Digital System For Automatic Processing Of Chest X-Rays

Ernest L. Hall, Richard P. Kruger, A. Franklin Turner

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 13, Issue 3, 133250 (June 1974). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7971702

Abstract

A description of a prototype optical-digital system for automatic processing of chest X-rays and preliminary results are presented. The system consists of a digital image scanner used for locating the lung fields and texture measurements, a diffraction pattern sampling unit which provides both annular ring and wedge samples of the Fraunhofer diffraction pattern of lung areas, and a microcomputer for control and computation of decision functions. The film is positioned by a computer-controlled film transport to provide an overall automated system. The system is currently being designed for the Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Respiratory Diseases and will be used for screening chest X-rays of coal miners for pneumoconiosis.

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Ernest L. Hall, Richard P. Kruger, and A. Franklin Turner "An Optical-Digital System For Automatic Processing Of Chest X-Rays," Optical Engineering 13(3), 133250 (1 June 1974). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7971702

Published: 1 June 1974

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